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This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self … can be correlated with employment choices. Using data from the 2008 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI …

Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of … to complement the traditional family care in rural China. …

China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium …-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more …

rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the …

Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …

the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities …

This paper first finds a clear pattern of child gender difference in family migration in China. Specifically, our … hypothesize that the family's competitive earning incentive for sons drives this child gender effect on family migration: parents … China's marriage market. This competitive-earning-incentive hypothesis is then supported by additional empirical evidence …